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Compulsory attendance for University students, private sectors staff to attend the ‘Walk For Life’?

There were reports of university students, hospital and private sector staff being forced to attend the walk (private messages of students and employees).

I don’t know if it’s only me, but I couldn’t help but notice that the crowd who attended Luneta’s ‘Walk For Life’ event were mostly young people.Not to disparage those who went there on their free will and I admire those people for doing what they believed is right, but there are grumbling on social media that some of them were either coerced or given incentives to make attending the Luneta event irresistible.Well, if you have read Eric Clark Su’s post on Facebook on Sunday morning, it appears that the event organizers used strong arm tactics, hmm, influence to make people attend Luneta’s event.Here’s the post below.

Yesterday’s Walk for Life 2017 event had 20,000+ registrations.Only about 9,000 to 10,000 came to March (Source: Manila Police). There were reports of university students, hospital and private sector staff being forced to attend the walk (private messages of students and employees). There are also reports of a big church group raffling P300k to members who will attend (source: MJ).Less than 1,000 people stayed at the park for the talks and sermons as the culmination of the march. (Source: someone with a condo overviewing the park).

Netizens who’ve read the post of Mr. Su have a fun time offering their own explanation how the event organizers managed to gather the crowd in Luneta on Saturday.